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What Drives Reciprocal Behavior? The Optimal Provision of Incentives over the Course of Careers

We explore how inherent preferences for reciprocity and repeated interaction interact in an optimal incentive system. Developing a theoretical model of a long-term employment relationship, we first show that reciprocal preferences are more important when an employee is close to retirement. At earlier stages, repeated interaction is more important because more future rents can be used to provide incentives. ...

Loafing or Learning? The Demand for Informal Education

Job Design and Job Satisfaction – Empirical Evidence for Germany?

The present paper uses a large representative data set for Germany to analyze the effect of an enriched job design, which is characterized by a high degree of autonomy and multitasking, on job satisfaction. In our empirical approach we take job satisfaction as a proxy variable for workers’ utility following the approach suggested in Clark/Oswald (1996). We present clear evidence that modern job design ...

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Smoothing Hazard Functions and Time-Varying Effects in Discrete Duration and Competing Risks Models

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A Behaviouristic Approach for Measuring Poverty: The Decomposition Approach – Empirical Illustrations for Germany 1995-2009

In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition approach. This method differentiates between various social groups in the sense that for each group a separate poverty line is determined. E. g., household size might be a criterion for such a social differentiation. By doing this, the problem of traditional poverty measurement to refer ...

Demografie und Einkommensungleichheit

Deutschland steht vor einem gewaltigen demografischen Umbruch. Die Alterung (und Schrumpfung) der bundesdeutschen Bevölkerung dürfte auch spürbare Auswirkungen auf die personelle Einkommensverteilung haben. Es werden voraussichtlich nicht nur die Verteilungskämpfe in den bundesdeutschen Sicherungssystemen an Schärfe gewinnen. Vielmehr dürften sich aktuellen Trends zufolge auch die erwarteten wirtschafts- ...